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Aged care residents treated ‘second class’ – Walcha News
Aged care residents in Australia are being treated as second-class citizens and hundreds will die prematurely during the coronavirus pandemic, a sector expert…
Aged care residents in Australia are being treated as second-class citizens and hundreds will die prematurely during the coronavirus pandemic, a sector expert has told a royal commission.
Professor Joseph Ibrahim said aged residents made up more than 68 per cent of the nation’s virus deaths.
“In my opinion, hundreds of residents … will die prematurely because people have failed to act,” he said on Wednesday .
“There’s a lack of apathy, a lack of urgency.”
Prof Ibrahim, the head of Monash U…
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